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TOPIC
topic, subject, issue, matter
(noun) some situation or event that is thought about; “he kept drifting off the topic”; “he had been thinking about the subject for several years”; “it is a matter for the police”
subject, topic, theme
(noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; “he didn’t want to discuss that subject”; “it was a very sensitive topic”; “his letters were always on the theme of love”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
topic
topical
Noun
topic (plural topics)
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
(Internet) Discussion thread.
(music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
(obsolete) An argument or reason.
(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
Synonyms
• (area of interest): subject, subject area
Anagrams
• cop it, optic, picot
Source: Wiktionary
Top"ic, n. Etym: [F. topiques, pl., L. topica the title of a work of Aristotle, Gr. topika`, fr. topiko`s of or for place, concerning to`poi, or commonplaces, fr. to`pos a place.] (a) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory. (b) pl.
Definition: A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle. These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult. Blair. In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct topic, but a transcendent that runs through all topics. Jer. Taylor.
2. An argument or reason. [Obs.] Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon. Bp. Wilkins.
3. The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
4. (Med.)
Definition: An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc. [Obsoles.] Wiseman.
Top"ic, a.
Definition: Topical. Drayton. Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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